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Second, when it comes to data latency, today’s networks are designed for human perception, which tolerates a fairly high degree of delay.
Professional mobility must be allowed without delay.
Why won’t that continue and feed on itself – as it has in Japan – as consumers delay spending in anticipation of even lower prices in the future?
It also predicted that the heat capacity of the oceans would delay warming by several decades.
Unfortunately, they were right: industry groups, led by the American Petroleum Institute and top mining companies, are aiming to delay and weaken the regulations, undermining the law’s spirit.
Analysis in Bangladesh by economists from Duke University and MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab suggests that providing financial incentives to delay marriage could be the most effective strategy.
Their arguments have been repeatedly disproved for 30 years – time after time – but their aggressive methods of public propaganda succeed in causing delay and confusion.
Sovereign borrowers cannot seek the protection of bankruptcy laws to delay and restructure payments; at the same time, their creditors cannot seize non-commercial public assets in compensation for unpaid debts.
Never forget this!”Yet, for the many powerful interests, climate change remains a game, with the goal being to delay action for as long as possible.
Extended delay is unlikely to be met with extended tolerance.
The issues are detailed and technical, and the financial lobby has deployed a small army of highly paid experts on a mission of delay, dilution, and diversion.
Moreover, by communicating ex ante its willingness to provide emergency funds, the IMF would reduce the stigma against countries that turn to it for assistance – a stigma that has led countries to delay requesting support until it is too late to mitigate domestic political damage.
America's unilateral announcement has fuelled rumors to the effect that withdrawal must have something to do with the rising tide of anti-Americanism in South Korea, and especially with the country's reluctance and delay in dispatching an additional 3,600 of its own soldiers to Iraq.
It claims that if Kosovo is granted independence, the ultranationalist Radical Party will come to power in the next elections, and believes that holding elections as early as this year will cause the Contact Group to delay a proposal to the Security Council.
But delay only offers more room for Kostunica to find ways to make a Security Council decision more difficult.
Moreover, they worry that the problems associated with changing EU decision-making will delay enlargement, with current EU members conveniently able to blame the candidates for this inaction.
If the new treaty comes into being, the institutional reforms that the union needs will become a reality, and a new double majority voting procedure will take effect, even if with some delay.
By contrast, Milosevic has taken advantage of the ICTY’s procedures to delay his trial, while challenging its jurisdiction and legitimacy.
The looming failure of the Development Round of trade talks and the long delay in the United Nations Security Council’s demand for a ceasefire in Lebanon are but the latest examples of America’s contempt for multilateral initiatives.
This can delay for years the expenditures required to protect people’s health and the environment.
In parallel to their attempts to delay or prevent regulation through assertions of scientific uncertainty, polluters and manufacturers of hazardous products have promoted the “junk science” movement, which attempts to influence public opinion by ridiculing scientists whose research threatens powerful interests, irrespective of the quality of that scientist’s research.
Pessimists, seeing a global slowdown and a recession in neighboring Brazil, worry that there will need to be further devaluations, especially given significant pass-through to consumer prices, and that this – or even the expectation of it – may lead some exporters to delay shipments.
The treaty establishing the ICC empowers the Security Council to delay a prosecution if this is needed to bring about a peace settlement.
But whether these measures will lead to higher fertility rates is dubious, for a simple reason: they fail to tackle sufficiently the high economic hurdles that are causing South Koreans to delay or forego having children.
Indeed, such a mal-diagnosis could delay what I believe will be an eventual solid recovery in Japan.
Demolition of Palestinian houses and Israeli provocations in East Jerusalem highlight the need to confront this issue without delay.
The recent report by The Iran Project, whose signatories include the former US national security advisers Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski, concluded that an American military attack on Iran could only delay its nuclear program for up to four years.
Administering artemisinin in combination with one or more other antimalarials, however, can delay the development of resistance, while helping to save almost a half-million lives each year.
Male circumcision is a one-off treatment that can reduce the transmission of HIV to men during intercourse by 60%, and, with some delay, also reduce transmission to women.
This perception has caused past Egyptian governments not only to shy away from IMF support, but also to delay the annual economic consultations required under the Fund’s Articles of Agreement.
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